The subject of the seminar, after briefly mentioning the restrictions brought for various reasons on the essentially exclusive rights arising from the work in the context of the copyright law, focuses on the limitation on the monopoly of the author of copying the work. The applicability of the limitation, which is referred to as private copying exception in English literature and regulated as reproduction for personal use in Art. 38/1 of FSEK (Law on Intellectual and Artistic Works) in our law, in the digital environment and cloud storage spaces will be examined in the context of the law and jurisprudence in its implementation. The European Court of Justice’s recent judgment in Austro-Mechana (C-433/20), in which the court provides a positive response to the question, will be mentioned and whether it is possible to reach the same conclusion in terms of Turkish law will be discussed.
